Philipp Ackermann

Philipp Friedrich Johannes Ackermann (born June 24, 1965, in Miltenberg, Bavaria) is a German diplomat.

Since 2022, he heads the German Embassy in New Delhi as Ambassador to India with secondary accreditation to the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Stages of his career in the Foreign Service include a stay at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an exchange diplomat, three years as a press and political officer at the German Embassy in Rabat and three years at the political department of the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York.

From 2014 to 2016, Ackermann worked as envoy and deputy ambassador at the German embassy in Washington D.C.[3] In 2016, he became Commissioner for the Middle East and North Africa at the Federal Foreign Office.

[6] In 2001, Philipp Ackermann was one of the co-founders of the International Legal Foundation in New York, a non-governmental organization that provides public defense for the indigent in post-conflict states.